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MeadWestvaco Corporation Announces Offering of Notes
Tuesday 18. August 2009 - MeadWestvaco Corporation (NYSE:MWV) today announced that it has commenced a public offering of $250 million aggregate principal amount of its Notes due 2019.
MWV intends to apply the net proceeds from the offering of the Notes toward the payment of the purchase price in a tender offer, which it announced today, for up to $250 million in aggregate principal amount of its 6.85% Notes due 2012 and for general corporate purposes.
BofA Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital, Citi and UBS Investment Bank are acting as joint book-running managers for the Notes offering. Copies of the prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus describing the offering may be obtained by visiting EDGAR on the SECs web site at www.sec.gov or by contacting BofA Merrill Lynch at 100 West 33rd Street, 3rd Floor, New York, New York 10001 (1-800-294-1322); Barclays Capital c/o Broadridge Integrated Distribution Services, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717 (1-888-603-5847); Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Attention: Prospectus Department, Brooklyn Army Terminal, 140 58th Street, 8th Floor, Brooklyn, New York 11220 (1-877-858-5407); or UBS Securities LLC at 299 Park Avenue, New York, New York, Attn: Prospectus Specialist (1-877-827-6444, ext. 561-3884).
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any Notes nor shall there be any sale of Notes in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. The Notes offering is being made only by means of the prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus.